National News: Prior to COVID-19, states cut $600B in ed funding since Great Recession

A pair of reports released last Thursday by the Education Law Center — “Making the Grade 2020” and “$600 Billion Lost: State Disinvestment in Education Following the Great Recession” — add deeper context to the financial turmoil facing the nation’s public schools and further highlight the adverse impact states’ education funding cuts were already having prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Source: Education Dive, January 15, 2021.